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Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub

Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub

Professor/Managing Director, Smart Grid Center Qatar/IEEE Fellow

Office Number: 246E
Office Phone: +974.4423.0110


Dr. Haitham Abu-Rub holds two PhDs in electrical engineering and humanities from Poland. He has a long experience of teaching and research at many universities worldwide, including Qatar, Palestine, Poland, the U.S.A., and Germany.

Since 2006, Abu-Rub has been associated with Texas A&M University at Qatar where he is currently a professor and the managing director of the Smart Grid Center – Extension in Qatar. He also has served for five years as the chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program at Texas A&M at Qatar.

Abu-Rub’s main research interests are power electronics, electric drives, renewable energy systems, and smart grid.

He has co-authored more than 600 journal and conference papers, six books, and two issued patents.

Abu-Rub has received many prestigious international awards and recognitions, including the American Fulbright Scholarship and the German Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. He is an IEEE Fellow and Co-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Political Science, Gdansk University, 2004
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, 1995
  • Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland, 1990

Experience

7/2014-8/2019      Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering program, Texas A&M University at Qatar

1/2014-present      Managing Director of the Smart Grid Center – Extension in Qatar (SGC-Q)

7/2012-present      Professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar,

5/2011-5/2015      ABET coordinator, ECEN department, Texas A&M University at Qatar

2006-2012             Associate professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar

2005/2006             Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (12-month Research Fellowship), University of Wuppertal, Germany

9/2000-8/2004      Head of Electrical Engineering Department, Birzeit University, Palestine

9/2001-8/2006      Associate Professor, Birzeit University

9/1997-8/2001      Assistant Professor, Birzeit University

2001                      Visiting professor, Texas A&M University, USA (Fulbright scholarship)

9/1996-8/1997      Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland

1996                      Representative and Engineer, Enamor, Gdynia Marine University, Poland,

1991 - 1995            Assistant at Gdynia Maritime Academy in Poland

Publications

Patents & Submitted Innovations

Six innovations submitted through QF and one patented in Poland

Running Grants

  1. Smart Grid Dynamic Control and Management with Big Data Process Platform, LPI: H.Abu-Rub, QNRF, NPRP10-0101-170082, three years (2018-2021).
  2. On Line Continuous Monitoring, Detection, and Location of Partial Discharge and Dynamic Aging in Medium and High Voltage Electrical Insulation, PI: H. Abu-Rub, QNRF, NPRP10-0101-170085,three years (2018-2021).
  3. Highly Efficient Inductive Power Transfer System for Electric Vehicles, Primary Research Mentor: H. Abu-Rub, UREP20-101-2-029, one year (2017-2018).
  4. Microgrids Advanced Dynamic Control Architecture and Distributed Energy Optimization, PI: H. Abu-Rub, NPRP9-310-2-134, three years (2017-2020)
  5. Integration of Solar Generation and Electrical Vehicles into The Smart Grid, PI: H. Abu-Rub, NPRP 8-241-2-095, three years (2016-2019).
  6. MW PV Power RD&D Using SiC-based qZS Cascade Multilevel Inverter and Battery Energy Storage, LPI: H. Abu-Rub, NPRP X, five years (2013-2019)

Publications

BOOKS

  1. Abu-Rub, A. Iqbal, J. Guzinski: High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab/Simulink Models, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., ISBN: 978-0-470-97829-0, 2012 (500 pages).
  2. Abu-Rub, M. Malinowski, K. Al-Haddad: Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems, Transportation and Industrial Applications, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., ISBN 978-1-118-63403-5, 2014 (856 pages).
  3. Guzinski, H. Abu-Rub, P. Strankowski: Variable Speed AC Drives with Inverter Output Filters, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., ISBN: 978-1-118-78289-7, 2015 (366 pages).
  4. Liu, H. Abu-Rub, B. Ge, F. Blaabjerg, O. Ellabban, P. C. Loh: Impedance Source Power Electronic Converters, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., ISBN-13: 978-1119037071, October 2016 (424 pages).

SELECTED JOURNAL PAPERS

  1. Y Liu, B Ge, Abu-Rub, F Blaabjerg, Single-Phase Z-Source\/Quasi-Z-Source Inverters and Converters: An Overview of Double-Line-Frequency Power-Decoupling Methods and Perspectives, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 2018, 12 (2), 6-23.
  2. P Kakosimos, Abu-Rub, Predictive Control of a Grid-Tied Cascaded Full-Bridge NPC Inverter for Reducing High-Freque§ncy Common-Mode Voltage Components, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2018, 14 (6), 2385-2394.
  3. P Kakosimos, Abu-Rub, Predictive speed control with short prediction horizon for permanent magnet synchronous motor drives, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2018, 33 (3), 2740-2750.
  4. Malinowski, J. I. Leon and H. Abu-Rub, "Solar Photovoltaic and Thermal Energy Systems: Current Technology and Future Trends," in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 105, no. 11, pp. 2132-2146, Nov. 2017. doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2017.2690343
  5. Bayhan, M. Trabelsi, H. Abu-Rub, M. Malinowski, "Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control for a Quasi-Z-Source Four-Leg Inverter under Unbalanced Load Condition," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.64, no.4, pp.2560-2569, April 2017.
  6. Mosa, R. Balog, H. Abu-Rub, “High Performance Predictive Control of Quasi Impedance Source Inverter,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.32, no.4, pp. 3251-3262, April 2017.